Elemental mercury has been imbued with magical properties for millennia, and various cultures use elemental mercury in a variety of superstitious and cultural practices, raising health concerns for users and residents in buildings where it is used. As a first step in assessing this phenomenon, we compared mercury vapor concentration in common areas of residential buildings versus outdoor air, i...

injection port resulted in an immediate reduction of the pressure to 16-20 mm Hg. (By inserting the manometer adapter into the injection port, the one-way function of the valve was cancelled and flow occurred from cuff to external balloon.) In view of this serious potential for undetected clinical abuse, we feel that the controlled pressure cuff system does not replace the need for frequent mon...

The io niza tion constant, K" fo r the reaction HF:;:2 H + + F was ca lc ul ated on the ba s is of pote ntio· metric measure me nt s in the cell Ag; AgCl , CI , F II La F"II Na F, HCI, 1-1 , 0 1 KCI(Sa td .), I-I g,Cl 2 ; Hg at 25 °C. A leas t squ a res procedure was a ppli ed to the ex pe rime nt a l da ta yie lding a bes t es tim a te fo r K, of 5 .85 X 10 4 with a s tanda rd e rror of 0.03 X...

The most essential limitation of batch-injection analysis (BIA) methodology compared to other flow methods (CFA, FIA, SIA) is the lack of possibility of on-line sample processing in the measuring system. Some procedures of on-line sample pretreatment in BIA are possible by changing the plastic tip of the automatic micropipette used for sample injection into a flow-through reactor, e.g. by packi...

Methylmercury contamination of the environment is an important issue globally, and birds are useful bioindicators for mercury monitoring programs. The available data on mercury contamination of birds in western North America were synthesized. Original data from multiple databases were obtained and a literature review was conducted to obtain additional mercury concentrations. In total, 29219 ori...

To further enhance the efficiency and potential of plants for phytoremediation of mercury pollution, a genetically engineered tobacco to simultaneously express mercury transporter, mercury transporter (MerT) and mercury chelator, polyphosphate (polyP) was constructed by integrating bacterial merT gene in polyphosphate kinase gene (ppk)-transgenic tobacco, and its ability to phytoremediate mercu...

Earlier, we reported that mercury, the environmental risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, activates vascular endothelial cell (EC) phospholipase D (PLD). Here, we report the novel and significant finding that calcium and calmodulin regulated mercury-induced PLD activation in bovine pulmonary artery ECs (BPAECs). Mercury (mercury chloride, 25 microM; thimerosal, 25 microM; methylmercury, 10 ...

background: contagion of aquatic ecosystems to heavy metals especially mercury (hg) has risen concerns about healthiness of marine organisms. organic mercury compounds are highly toxic for animals, and its detection in various samples is frequently needed. in present study we have described a new method for measurement of organic mercury and total mercury concentration in great cormorants (phal...

We determined mercury concentrations in tree swallows, Tachycineta bicolor, from Massachusetts and Maine with different levels of contamination. Baseline and stress-induced plasma corticosterone concentrations from adults and nestlings (Massachusetts only) were compared with mercury concentrations. In Massachusetts, adult baseline corticosterone was negatively correlated with blood mercury, but...